And the light shines on in the darkness, and the darkness has never put it out.

John was not the light, but he came to testify about the light.

who were born, not merely in a genetic sense, nor from lust, nor from man's desire, but from the will of God.

John answered them, "I am baptizing with water, but among you stands a man whom you do not know,

I didn't recognize him, but I came baptizing with water so that he might be revealed to Israel."

I didn't recognize him, but the one who sent me to baptize with water told me, "The person on whom you see the Spirit descending and remaining is the one who baptizes with the Holy Spirit.'

But when Jesus turned around and saw them following, he asked them, "What are you looking for?" They asked him, "Rabbi," (which is translated "Teacher"), "where are you staying?"

and told him, "Everyone serves the best wine first, and the cheap kind when people are drunk. But you have kept the best wine until now!"

But the sanctuary he was speaking about was his own body.

The wind blows where it wants to. You hear its sound, but you don't know where it comes from or where it is going. That's the way it is with everyone who is born of the Spirit."

"For this is how God loved the world: He gave his unique Son so that everyone who believes in him would not be lost but have eternal life.

Because God sent the Son into the world, not to condemn the world, but that the world would be saved through him.

Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe has already been condemned, because he has not believed in the name of God's unique Son.

And this is the basis for judgment: The light has come into the world, but people loved the darkness more than the light because their actions were evil.

But whoever does what is true comes to the light, so that it may become evident that his actions have God's approval."

You yourselves are my witnesses that I said, "I am not the Messiah, but I have been sent ahead of him.'

He must become more important, but I must become less important."

The Father loves the Son and has put everything in his hands.

The one who believes in the Son has eternal life, but the one who disobeys the Son will not see life. Instead, the wrath of God remains on him.

although it was not Jesus who did the baptizing but his disciples

But whoever drinks the water that I will give him will never become thirsty again. The water that I will give him will become a well of water for him, springing up to eternal life."

Our ancestors worshipped on this mountain. But you Jews say that the place where people should worship is in Jerusalem."

But he told them, "I have food to eat that you know nothing about."

The sick man answered him, "Sir, I don't have anyone to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up. While I'm trying to get there, someone else steps down ahead of me."

But he answered them, "The man who made me well told me, "Pick up your mat and walk.'"

But the one who had been healed did not know who it was, because Jesus had slipped away from the crowd in that place.

But Jesus answered them, "My Father has been working until now, and I, too, am working."

So the Jewish leaders were trying all the harder to kill him, because he was not only breaking the Sabbath but was also calling God his own Father, thereby making himself equal to God.

Jesus told them, "Truly, I tell all of you emphatically, the Son can do nothing on his own accord, but only what he sees the Father doing, What the Father does, the Son does likewise.

The Father judges no one, but has given all authority to judge to the Son,

"Truly, I tell all of you emphatically, whoever hears what I say and believes in the one who sent me has eternal life and will not be judged, but has passed from death to life.

I can do nothing on my own accord. I judge according to what I hear, and my judgment is just, because I do not seek my own will but the will of the one who sent me."

I myself do not accept human testimony, but I am saying these things so that you may be saved.

"But I have a greater testimony than John's, because the actions that the Father has given me to complete the very actions that I am doing testify on my behalf that the Father has sent me.

But you are not willing to come to me to have life.

But if you do not believe what he wrote, how will you believe my words?"

But Jesus went up on a hillside and sat down there with his disciples.

"There's a little boy here who has five barley loaves and two small fish. But what are these among so many people?"

got into a boat, and started across the sea to Capernaum. Darkness had already fallen, and Jesus had not yet come to them.

After they had rowed about 25 or 30 stadia, they saw Jesus walking on the sea toward their boat. They became terrified.

But he told them, "It is I. Stop being afraid!"

So they were glad to take him on board, and immediately the boat reached the land toward which they were going.

The next day, the crowd that had remained on the other side of the sea noticed that only one boat had been there, and no other, and that Jesus had not gotten into that boat with his disciples. Instead, his disciples had gone away by themselves.

Jesus replied to them, "Truly, I tell all of you emphatically, you are looking for me, not because you saw signs, but because you ate the loaves and were completely satisfied.

Do not work for food that perishes but for food that lasts for eternal life, which the Son of Man will give you, because God the Father has set his seal on him."

Jesus told them, "Truly, I tell all of you emphatically, it was not Moses who gave you the bread from heaven, but it is my Father who gives you the true bread from heaven.

I have come down from heaven, not to do my own will, but the will of the one who sent me.

And this is the will of the one who sent me, that I should not lose anything that he has given me, but should raise it to life on the last day.

This is the bread that came down from heaven, not the kind that your ancestors ate. They died, but the one who eats this bread will live forever."

But Jesus, knowing within himself that his disciples were grumbling about this, asked them, "Does this offend you?

But there are some among you who don't believe..." - because Jesus knew from the beginning those who weren't believing, as well as the one who would betray him.

Jesus told them, "My time has not yet come, but your time is always here.

The world cannot hate you, but it hates me because I testify against it that its actions are evil.

But after his brothers had gone up to the festival, he went up himself, not openly but, as it were, in secret.

Jesus replied to them, "My teaching is not mine but comes from the one who sent me.

The one who speaks on his own seeks his own praise. But the one who seeks the praise of him who sent him is genuine, and there's nothing false in him.

Moses gave you circumcision not that it is from Moses, but from the Patriarchs and so you circumcise a man on the Sabbath.

Stop judging by appearances, but judge with righteous judgment!"

We know where this man comes from. But when the Messiah comes, no one will know where he comes from."

At this point Jesus, still teaching in the Temple, shouted, "So you know me and know where I've come from? I haven't come on my own accord. But the one who sent me is true, and he's the one you don't know.

Then the Jewish leaders tried to seize him, but no one laid a hand on him because his hour had not yet come.

You'll look for me but won't find me. And where I am, you cannot come."

What does this statement mean that he said, "You'll look for me but won't find me,' and, "Where I am, you cannot come'?"

But some were saying, "The Messiah doesn't come from Galilee, does he? Doesn't the Scripture say that the Messiah is from David's family and from Bethlehem, the village where David lived?"

Some of them were wanting to seize him, but no one laid hands on him.

But this mob that does not know the Law they're under a curse!"

But the scribes and the Pharisees brought a woman who had been caught in adultery. After setting her before them,

They said this to test him, so that they might have a charge against him. But Jesus bent down and began to write on the ground with his finger.

Later on, Jesus spoke to them again, saying, "I am the light of the world. The one who follows me will never walk in darkness, but will have the light of life."

Jesus answered them, "Even though I'm testifying about myself, my testimony is valid because I know where I've come from and where I'm going. But you don't know where I come from or where I'm going.

You're judging by human standards, but I'm not judging anyone.

Yet even if I should judge, my judgment would be valid, because it is not I alone who judges, but I and the one who sent me.

Later on, he told them again, "I'm going away, and you'll look for me, but you will die in your sin. You cannot come where I'm going."

He told them, "You are from below, I'm from above. You are of this world, but I'm not of this world.

Jesus told them, "What have I been telling you all along? I have much to say about you and to condemn you for. But the one who sent me is truthful, and what I've heard from him I declare to the world."

The slave does not remain in the household forever, but the son does remain forever.

Jesus told them, "If you were Abraham's children, you would be doing what Abraham did. But now you're trying to kill me, a man who has told you the truth that I heard from God. Abraham would'nt have done that.

Jesus told them, "If God were your Father, you would've loved me, because I came from God and am here. I haven't come on my own accord, but he sent me.

But it is because I speak the truth that you don't believe me.

Then the Jewish leaders told him, "Now we really know that you have a demon. Abraham died, and so did the prophets, but you say, "If anyone keeps my word, he will never taste death.'

You don't know him, but I know him. If I were to say that I don't know him, I would be a liar like you. But I do know him and keep his word.

At this, they picked up stones to throw at him, but Jesus hid himself and went out of the Temple.

Some were saying, "It's him," while others were saying, "No, but it's someone like him." But he himself kept saying, "It's me!"

So the Pharisees also began to ask him how he had gained his sight. He told them, "He put mud on my eyes, then I washed, and now I can see."

Some of the Pharisees began to remark, "This man is not from God because he does not keep the Sabbath." But others were saying, "How can a sinful man perform such signs?" And there was a division among them.

But we don't know how it is that he now sees, and we don't know who opened his eyes. Ask him. He is of age and can speak for himself."

But he responded, "I don't know whether he is a sinner or not. The one thing I do know is that I used to be blind and now I can see!"

He answered them, "I've already told you, but you didn't listen. Why do you want to hear it again? You don't want to become his disciples, too, do you?"

At this, they turned on him in fury and said, "You are his disciple, but we are disciples of Moses!

We know that God has spoken to Moses, but we do not know where this fellow comes from."

We know that God doesn't listen to sinners, but he does listen to anyone who worships him and does his will.

Jesus told them, "If you were blind, you would not have any sin. But now that you insist, "We see,' your sin still exists."

"Truly, I tell all of you emphatically, the person who doesn't enter the sheepfold through the gate, but climbs in by some other way, is a thief and a bandit.

They'll never follow a stranger, but will run away from him because they don't recognize the voice of strangers."

Jesus used this illustration with them, but they didn't understand what he was saying to them.

All who came before me are thieves and bandits, but the sheep didn't listen to them.

Jesus answered them, "I have told you, but you don't believe it. The actions that I do in my Father's name testify on my behalf,

but you don't believe, because you don't belong to my sheep.

The Jewish leaders answered him, "We are not going to stone you for a good action, but for blasphemy, because you, a mere man, are making yourself God!"

But if I'm doing them, even though you don't believe me, believe the actions, so that you may know and understand that the Father is in me and I am in the Father."